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/ 5 December 2002
Traditional healers are battling to get patients to go for follow-up tests after they have tested HIV-positive.
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/ 5 December 2002
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE)
retreated in opening trade on Thursday as the firmer currency dragged heavyweight rand hedge stocks down.
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/ 5 December 2002
Mention Common Agricultural Policy to anyone in the European Union and the most likely response is one defending current caps on agricultural spending and various other market access initiatives as steps in the right direction.
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/ 5 December 2002
Herschelle Gibbs cast aside a disappointing cricket series on Wednesday to spur South Africa to an eight wicket win as well as a 3-1 series victory over Sri Lanka at the De Beers Oval.
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/ 5 December 2002
So far the war on terror has divided the world into hawks and doves. Hawks want to crush the enemy with physical might. Doves seek to understand the root causes of terrorism, to address the grievances that motivate the killers.
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/ 4 December 2002
The rand was around four cents firmer against the US dollar in early trade on Wednesday in a repetition of a pattern seen in early trade on Tuesday.
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/ 4 December 2002
The National Council of Trade Unions has been accused of gross financial mismanagement by one of its top officials, who intends to take legal steps to ensure that the federation gets its finances in order.
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/ 4 December 2002
A newspaper editor is expected to be robust in the face of many challenges, from the rants of a government spin doctor to the libel threats of people in the public eye, but spare a thought for Nduka Obaigbena, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Nigeria’s leading daily, ThisDay.
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/ 4 December 2002
There can be few more spectacular sights in Latin America than El Reventador, the volcano that has been erupting so furiously over the past few weeks that it has cast its dust over the streets of Quito, about 100km away. Now the capital of Ecuador is experiencing the latest in a series of Latin American eruptions of a different nature: the peaceful election of a left-wing president whose declared enemies are corruption and poverty and who looks like the antithesis of the kind of leader the United States would like to see in the region.